Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

— Chance of dying in a terrorist attack in the United States from 2007 to 2011, according to Richard Barrett, coordinator of the United Nations
al Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team. Read more: swampland.time.com...

Over the last week, in press statements as well as Mark’s post last Friday, we’ve repeatedly called for governments worldwide to be willing to
provide more details about programs aimed at keeping the public safe. We’ve also urged them to allow companies to divulge appropriate information
about government orders and requests that we receive, in a manner that does not compromise legitimate security concerns. Requests from law
enforcement entities investigating national security-related cases are by their nature classified and highly sensitive, and the law traditionally has
placed significant constraints on the ability of companies like Facebook to even confirm or acknowledge receipt of these requests – let alone
provide details of our responses. We’ve reiterated in recent days that we scrutinize every government data request that we receive –

what did you expect ? farcebook was founded on C(aught) I(n the) A(cts) blood and drug money ... they're been monitoring farcebook from the start and
still do monitor farcebook .. getting the return on their investment ... never have never will use farcebook .. the bastards want to know what I'm up
to then they will have to actually work to find out ..

Just nasty when they "try" explain it with corporate talk. willing to provide more details about programs aimed at keeping the public safe.
So lame..
I don't like corporate talk, it makes me nervous, like I should have a lawyer on stand bye..

And what might Facebook say? What if the government asked what you posted? What will that change other than people knowing that is does not matter?
The big revelation is not that the government tracks us without us knowing, it is that it tracks most without a reason. My father had an unreal
security clearance, even his bosses could not ask him certain things. They tracked our family because of that and they should have. Would you say that
we should track the families of people who have top secret clearances or not? People post pictures online of them stealing money, should that be
ignored, would you want a government that ignored people admitting to crimes? Just asking where you believe the line should be.

Well, to hear them tell it--and by "them" I mean all the outspoken anti-privacy twitches caught up in this PRISM mess--they're worse than useless
to the US spy apparatus. To hear them tell it, all the data they collect on us is safer than our own mother's arms.

We can all let out a big sigh of relief now. To hear them tell it, they're just collecting all of our private data for no other purpose than to be
sure it's in a safe place where the USGov/NSA/CIA/DIA/ABC/XYZ can never get at it. That's good enough for me....

"Actually, this information has been out there for awhile, former NSA agent already pointed this all out"

-That's Swell

Thanks for your input

edit on 15-6-2013 by canucks555 because: (no reason given)

Dear canucks555,

No, really, the guy that designed the program came out and said that it was being used on Americans years ago. Look it up. Nobody seemed to care when
it came out originally. Are you truly surprised that all our electronic messages are monitored? If hackers can read our e-mails, shouldn't we agree
that the government can too? Why wouldn't they read them?

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